Cybercrime and Sabotage Cost German Firms $300 Billion in Past Year August 28, 2024 Cybercrime and other acts of sabotage have cost German companies around 267 billion euros ($298 billion) in the past year,...
Only a Third of $2.7M Stolen in Miss. County Hacking Scam Has Been Returned June 6, 2024 CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Madison County has recovered an estimated $900,000 after an investigation found that the county was defrauded...
Australia Is Inadvertently Inviting Cyber Crimewave, Data Theft Victim Service Warns April 5, 2023 By Byron Kaye An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of...
Crypto Firms Being Targeted by North Korea Hackers, Warns DeFiance Capital Founder April 18, 2022 By Joanna Ossinger All prominent cryptocurrency organizations are probably being targeted by North Korean hackers and should strengthen their cybersecurity, according to the...
UniCredit Hackers Try to Sell Employee Data on Cyber-Crime Forums April 21, 2020 By Daniele Lepido and Sonia Sirletti Data on about 3,000 UniCredit SpA employees was put up for sale on cyber-crime forums after a hacking attack. The...
Hackers Steal 7,000 Bitcoins Worth $40M from Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance May 8, 2019 By Eric Lam Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said hackers withdrew 7,000 Bitcoins worth about $40 million via a single...
Losses from Cryptocurrency Thefts, Fraud Surged to $1.2 Billion in Q1: Report May 1, 2019 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Losses from the theft of cryptocurrencies from exchanges and fraud-related activities surged in the first quarter of the year to...
Canada Eyes Regulation of Crypto-Trading Platforms Amid Ongoing Quadriga Scandal March 15, 2019 By Kristine Owram Canada is moving to overhaul its securities regulations to cover crypto trading platforms such as Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp., a...
Mystery of Quadriga’s Missing Cryptocurrencies Deepens as `Cold Wallets’ Found Empty March 4, 2019 By Doug Alexander When Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp. founder Gerald Cotten died, account holders feared the encrypted access keys needed to recover C$190...
Crypto Startup BitGo Offers Insurance Against Quadriga Cold-Wallet Debacle February 20, 2019 By Olga Kharif While users of the troubled Quadriga CX cryptocurrency exchange remain unable to retrieve millions in funds, a startup backed by...